Dining

Award-winning Winemaker Bill Easton Featured At Pig+Fig

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Award-winning winemaker Bill Easton with wife Jane O’Riordan at the wine tasting Monday at Pig+Fig. Courtesy photo

Scene from wine tasting event Monday evening at Pig+Fig Cafe in White Rock. Visit pigandfig.com. Courtesy photo

PIG + FIG News:

Bill Easton and his wife Jane O’Riordan held a wine tasting Monday evening at Pig+Fig Cafe, 11 Sherwood Blvd, in White Rock.

Easton is a highly regarded and award-winning winemaker drawing more than 60 wine enthusiasts to the special event.

Wines tasted at Monday’s event:

  • 2018 Easton Sauvignon Blanc;
  • 2015 Easton Amador County Zinfandel;
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Local Author Liddie Martinez Shares NNM Subsistence Farming And Food History With Los Alamos Aug. 5

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Local Author Liddie Martinez and husband Rick’s Española Valley farm produces food for their table and to share. She will talk about the history and traditions of food in NNM at 7 p.m., Aug. 5 at Mesa Public Library. Photo by Liddie Martinez

By BONNIE GORDON
Los Alamos Daily Post
bonnie@ladailypost.com

Local Author Liddie Martinez

Liddie Martinez is a writer, historian, farmer, extraordinary cook and president of the Los Alamos Region and director of community engagement at Enterprise Bank & Trust. Those who know Martinez when she’s wearing one hat, may not realize her expertise extends Read More

Sirphey Introduces Oreos With Peanut Butter Mousse Tarts

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The return of summer concerts has Sirphey throwing it all the way back to the days of summer camp and Oreos with peanut butter: introducing the OPB, Sirphey’s chocolate and peanut butter mousse tart topped with crumbled Oreos. Sirphey is at 1793 Deacon St. Visit sirphey.com. #worklosalamos #wherediscoveriesaremade. Courtesy/Sirphey Read More

On The Job In Los Alamos: At Time Out Pizzeria

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On the job Thursday in Los Alamos are owners Omar and Trisha Sanchez at Time Out Pizzeria, 157 Central Park Square. The couple have been serving up food and fun for the community since 2007 and it has become a family affair now that the couple’s three daughters are working at the eatery. With the state now fully open, Time Out has re-opened its salad bar, seating area and game room and is hiring a night manager and driver/kitchen staff person. One important way the community can help locally owned businesses such as Time Out Pizzeria is to pay with cash, saving the business the expense incurred Read More

Liddie’s Traditional New Mexican Dishes: Peas

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Learn how to shell and cook peas. Video by Liddie Martinez 

By LIDDIE MARTINEZ
Española Valley

 

We always grew peas in our garden. A northern New Mexico staple for centuries, alverjón is an old Arabic word, a remnant of the invasion of Spain by the Moors in the 8th century that made a permanent home in Northern New Mexico by way of the Camino Real. The archaic word was first documented in the new world in 1626 by Fray Alonso de Benavides. Newly arrived to northern New Mexico nearly 30 years after Don Juan de Oñate he wrote in his journal that the land was, “…exceedingly fertile and produced in great Read More

Things Are Getting Tasty This Week In History Adventures

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Courtesy/Los Alamos History Museum

History Museum News:

Is your elementary school child hungry for history? Get cooking this week as History Adventures explores food in history.

The Los Alamos History Museum is sharing fun, hands-on activities and adventures every week this month with History Adventures at www.LosAlamosHistory.org/Childrens_Programs.

The History Museum’s victory garden is growing—get outside for an adventure in the garden to explore what a victory garden was and how people grew food here in the past.

Your child will explore how farming and gardening in Los Alamos has Read More

On The Job In Los Alamos: Ronnie Jaramillo At Viola’s

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On the job in Los Alamos is Ronnie Jaramillo working the cash register Wednesday at Viola’s Restaurant at 1360 Trinity Dr. Viola’s is open 8:15 a.m. to 1:45 p.m., Monday through Friday for dine in or take out. The popular eatery has been serving customers in Los Alamos since 1988. For additional information, visit www.violasnm.com or call 505.662.5617. #worklosalamos #wherediscoveriesaremade. Photo by Jenn Bartram/ladailypost.com
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P&Z Approves Site Plan For New Starbucks On Trinity Drive

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Rendering of the proposed new Starbucks with drive thru at 1247 Trinity Dr. Courtesy/LAC

Staff Report

The Los Alamos County Planning and Zoning Commission unanimously approved a site plan at its June 9 meeting to relocate the Starbucks on Central Avenue to the old McDonald’s building on Trinity Drive.

The site plan, which was presented by Steve Maestas of Maestas Development Group, proposes relocating the coffee chain from 1801 Central Ave. to 1247 Trinity Dr.

County Senior Planner Sobia Sayeda told the Los Alamos Daily Post today that the site plan calls for demolishing the dilapidated old Read More